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2402
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Since colonial days, people living in the state's mountains have been creating their own jobs - that is, producing arts and crafts for their own use. Now these items, including hooked rugs and pottery, are highly prized by collectors.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 55 Issue 1, June 1987, p8-9, il
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9275
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Helen Ashley Carver came to Tryon in 1885 when wages for men were 50 cents a day and for women, 25 cents a day. Carver paid her gardener 65 cents a day and paid a vineyard caretaker $1 a day, after which she was found guilty of raising wages and subsequently became unpopular.\r\n
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 8, Jan 1979, p10-11, il, por
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9369
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The landed gentry colonized a part of the Appalachian Mountains. The first white settlers in the area were Ambrose and son, William Mills. The Mills family faced multiple attacks, some due in part to their Royalist persuasion, but mostly from Native Americans who pillaged and burned their homes on several occasions.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 42 Issue 6, Nov 1974, p18-20, 38, il
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9621
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Mosseller makes rugs by combining fine art with the ancient Appalachian craft of rug punching. In 1933, an admirer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned her to make a rug for the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. In the following years, her rugs and tapestries were exhibited in numerous art galleries and soon became widely known in the art world.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 44 Issue 11, Apr 1977, p12-14, il
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9812
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William Mills began planting apple orchards in Henderson County, shortly after the Revolutionary War. He was born November 10, 1746, while John Chapman, the famous “Johnny Appleseed,” was born in 1775. His apple orchards preceded Chapman's by thirty years. Today apple growing is a strong pillar in Henderson County's economy. About 65 percent of North Carolina's apple harvest is grown there. The state ranks seventh in the U.S. in apple production.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 43 Issue 3, Aug 1975, p8-10, il
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24556
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The author met Link Shehan, a man who can locate well springs using a forked stick that ‘vibrates’ when it is near a source of water. He is known as a Diviner by locals in Polk and Henderson counties.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 39 Issue 15, January 1972, p10-11, il
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